Personally, I'm not a big fan of videos. The medium is just too linear and slow. I prefer text and pictures because I can read much faster and or choose to skim things without loosing the importance or relevance of what was missed.
Now videos certainly far excel in certain types of demonstrations. There are just times when a picture won't cut it. My favorite things are when folks build a website with text and pictures on a topic and then substitute a short (<30 s) clip about an activity where video demonstrates it best, but you don't have to spend all your time listening to an intro.
All the above sounds kind of whiny, but for me that is my preferred way to soak up information. This is mainly why I chose to hang around BF rather than surfing youtube. Literally, the only time I ever watch a video over there is because it was posted over here.
Then again, none of why a video is put up there is about me. Most times its about the poster. What are their motivations for posting? Who are they trying to reach and why are they trying to reach other people? For some, the answers can be quite noble and others.....we'll less so.
I grew up in a time before the internet. I sometimes pontificate on the fact that aside from television, almost all of the written information that was presented to me came through some sort of peer review filter. Whether that was the newspaper or magazines that go through an editorial board, or books at the library who had publishers doing edits and then later the librarian themselves selecting which books were appropriate to go into which sections of the library. I grew up in a time where you were taught to trust writing with the exception of comic books and distrust television and movies. Those lines get blurred a great deal today.
The internet can be a source of credible information and absolute bull*hit macerating as such. Look at 'The Naturist' that we all had a laugh watching. It is really just another commercial for a hiking shoe trying to go exponential on the new medium that is advertising today - the internet. They irony is that they are spoofing survival while at the same time trying to sell hiking shoes. Personally, I don't get the philosophy behind it it but, but it most work?
Well - just like one of the 59 minute videos talking about how itchy a mosquito bite can be, I managed to steal 30 second of your time with my musings. What was the topic again?
